Early Monday morning I was taken to the hospital, feeling a migraine as part of the chronic pain I have. After giving the doctor an honest confession about how that illness affects my mood, he suggested that I voluntarily submit myself to their psychiatric ward for twenty-four hours. So I did. And was there for fifty hours instead.
Allow me to give you some tips about how to survive when you are surrounded by people who are… not all there.
I don’t know why I haven’t felt so well lately. I was only able to sleep a few hours after hanging out with friends watching a sporting event that I can’t discuss without the prior written consent of the National Football League; it may or may not have been exciting, but all I can say for sure is that one team out-scored the other. Anyways— I can’t remember the last time I put up a Monday Music podcast before sunlight made it through my window.
Feb 2
Posted by ren in Blog, Game Development, Ren | 4 Comments
I swore years ago that I would not submit myself to the game industry after seeing its true form: legalized slave labor. I held the utmost admiration for people like my partner-in-crime Wall, whose passion for game design is so great that he chose to stand up to the evils of the industry in order to pursue his dream. I watched such action from afar and said, “Never me.”
Yet here I am working on a game.
Wall and I are working on a 2D shmup. It will be available on all major computer platforms: Windows, OSX, and Linux. Here is my question though, what would you pay for such a game? Let’s say that all you know about it is that it may take thirty minutes to beat. Do you judge how much you would pay for a game simply based on the time it takes? Because I’ve met a number of people who use that metric.
Or let me ask a more important question: what qualities of a game are important to you when it comes to determining how much you are willing to pay for it?
Today’s podcast was going to be another video podcast providing a scathing review of a classic 1988 Japanese television show. But I made a dumb, rookie mistake and the recording ended with no audio. So instead I come offering hastily collected Japanese music of all sorts, with few notes to go along. My apologies.
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